Aiming For Enrike - Empty Airports Pt. 2 & Pt. 3
Tobias and Simen, your line-up is quite unusual with drums and guitar. There are no keyboards, no bass and no vocals. Have we finally arrived with you in the age of minimalism?
We have always been inspired by minimalist music by the likes of Steve Reich, Kraftwerk, Battles, Four Tet, Burial, Nils Frahm and Philip Glass. On this last record however we have delved deeper into the development of small simple ideas over longer periods of time. This has made Empty Airports our most minimalistic record to date and we really enjoy this way of playing together.
On the instrumentation: we have added a couple of synths and a drum machine to the live setup, so while the music is becoming more minimalistic, the setup and instrumentation is slowly getting bigger. We dont have a bass in the setup but those who have seen and heard us live know that we have plenty of bass coming out of the guitar.
"Empty Airports pt.2 & Empty Airports pt. 3" are your two singles, which are also part of your new album. To what extent do they already give a good insight into the new album "Empty Airports"?
It is a pretty good representation of the feel of the record in the way that it dwells on a theme and slowly transforms it into something else. It is one of the slower ones on the record.
Despite the minimalism, your sound is very sprawling and one is tempted to lose oneself in it. Is that supposed to have some sort of meditative effect on us?
It certanly has a meditative and sometimes hypnotic effect on us when we perform it, and hopefully this will translate to the audience. The best things in life usually involves loosing track of space and time, and that’s what we have been trying to achieve with our new music.
INFO
Aiming for Enrike - Empty Airports Pt. 2 & Pt. 3
Art. no: JANSENS277
Released: August 31st, 2022
Tracklist:
1. Empty Airports Pt. 2
2. Empty Airports Pt. 3
CREDITS:
Tobias Ørnes Andersen - Drums, percussion, synths and drum machines
Simen Følstad Nilsen - Guitars and synths
Written by: Aiming for Enrike
Produced by: Simen Følstad Nilsen
Mixed by: Simen Følstad Nilsen
Mastered by: Christian Obermayer at Strype Audio
